NYCFC conceded a late goal to the last place Colorado Rapids on Saturday night costing the team two points at a critical time of the season.

Mike and Jon discuss the game and what was not working for the team. In the second segment, Joe Chadwick joins to the to give his thoughts on the game and his perspective of the mood in Dick’s Sporting Good Park.

Andrea Pirlo shined in Wednesday’s 1-0 victory for NYCFC over Sporting Kansas City, but it would only take one play on Saturday to erase that memory and remind MLS and world soccer pundits alike that Pirlo is Pirlo.

Mike and Jon recap the pair of games from this week. In the second segment The Armchair Analyst, Matt Doyle, joins the show to give his thoughts on NYCFC and VAR.

Between International Call-ups and injuries, NYCFC will be pretty thin for Wednesday’s game versus Sporting KC. Things improve, but just moderately for Saturday’s game against Portland Timbers. Luckily for Vieira, both of this week’s home matches are against Western Conference opponents.

Martin Bihl from Last Word on Sports joins Mike and Jon this week as the trio try to figure out how Patrick Vieira will approach these games.

In the middle segment the guys breakdown the USMNT World Cup Qualifier loss from Friday night in New Jersey.

Real words can no longer describe what we are privileged to witness week in and week out by David Villa, so Jon and Mike have resorted to having listeners make up new ones. This week was the pinnacle. In a game against the Red Bulls, a team that Villa has struggled to score against, he dominated, scoring three goals and blocking a close range chance by opposing striker Bradley Wright-Phillips. Mike and Jon spend the entire first segment discussing Villa and his importance to NYCFC.

In the second segment Adam Serrano, the LA Galaxy Insider, joins the show to discuss another important matchup for the Blue Birds of New York.

The last segment continues the conversation about Sunday’s 3-2 victory, the most exciting of the Hudson River Derby’s to date.

Last year one of the common criticisms Patrick Vieira had of NYCFC was their need to be more ruthless in the eighteen yard box, both on attack and defense. On Saturday, a ten man NYCFC team demonstrated that ruthlessness and defeated the Chicago Fire 2-1, closing the gap between the second and third place squads.

Mike and Jon discuss the key points of the game and how NYCFC ended up playing 78 plus minutes down a man.

In the second segment Sebastian Salazar from ESPN FC joins the show to discuss Gold Cup, USMNT, ElTri and of course NYCFC.

NYCFC once again conceded early, once again equalized and gained a lead, but what is becoming far too often a talking point, Patrick Vieira made odd choices with his substitutions and NYCFC dropped the points.

In this week’s episode Mike and Jon break down the game and sprinkle in some post-game comments.

The second segment welcomes back Fire Confidential’s Guillermo Rivera as he joins the show to give his insight into the Chicago Fire and their historic turn-around.